Fans entering the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway this weekend might see longer lines to have their bags checked in wake of the Boston Marathon bombings Monday.

Kansas Speedway President Pat Warren would not detail specific security policies or procedures for the STP 400 weekend but said fans could see some minimal changes.

Kansas Speedway will host the STP 400 on Sunday. (AP Photo)

“People might notice a little bit of an increased police presence or something else, which is normal after an event like this,” Warren said. “But there will also be things they don’t see.

“What I would ask from our fans is to have patience when they’re at the gate, patience when they’re in the parking lot. Obviously we’ll check bags, we check coolers, everything that we normally do. But if it takes a little bit longer this weekend, I hope people understand why that’s the case.”

Practice and qualifying for the STP 400 will begin Friday with the race scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on Sunday.

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, several tracks banned coolers. As security concerns over coolers lessened and in an attempt to be more fan friendly, those policies have changed over the last decade.

Kansas allows coolers no larger than 14-by-14-by-14 that are soft-sided and do not contain glass.

The track will not add metal detectors and will not change gate policies, Warren said.

“We treat every event seriously and we take the protection of our fans very seriously,” Warren said. “We don’t talk about the things that we do to protect the fans and create a safe environment because we don’t want to share that information with people that want to do something bad.”

NASCAR has a track and security summit each year with emergency personnel from every track, where it talks about procedures in case of severe weather or tragedies. That summit has had more than 600 participants annually in recent years.

Kansas Speedway has an emergency action plan and its most recent drill was two years ago, Warren said.

In February at Daytona International Speedway, more than 30 fans were injured (14 were hospitalized) from debris after the front of Kyle Larson’s car exploded as it hit the frontstretch catch fence.

Both Daytona and Kansas are among tracks owned by International Speedway Corp.

“What we learned were the policies and procedures we had in place worked,” Warren said.

“We have fundamentally the same things in place that Daytona had in place. … The EMS presence will be almost identical (as Daytona).”